"This book should find readers among ethnohistorians, historical geographers, cartographers, Wabanaki people, Maine history buffs, and others with an interest in the Penobscot Valley. Micah Pawling's introduction sets the local context but also points to its larger significance. It offers a window onto a Native world at a time of dramatic change and it gives depth and detail to, and alternative understandings and readings of, a landscape that is being contested and transferred. The original journal and maps, like the book itself, are the product of intercultural collaboration."—Colin G. Calloway, author of The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of America
"Highly recommend this book for anyone with an interest in surveying , biographies, American history, American geography, Native American culture, or Maine in particular. Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat provides a multi-faceted look at the complexities of human relations in the burgeoning United States and the important role the cartography played in both documenting and influencing historical events."—Cartographic Perspectives
"We are indebted to Pawling for bringing this remarkable document to our attention and contextualizing it in such illuminating fashion."—American Indian Culture and Research Journal
"The attractively produced volume under review – edited, annotated and introduced by Micah Pawling . . . makes a solid contribution to a growing body of journals, treaties, and captivity narratives that have been reprinted, annotated, and placed within the contents of the painstaking research and editorial work establishes once again the valuable and unexpected insights into Native American history, borderlands history, and environmental history that result from such multifaceted efforts to reinterpret documents. Micah Pawling, who saw the potential in Treat's survey, and the members of the Penobscot Indian Nation who contributed to this effort are to be commended."—New England Quarterly